Visualizing the Official Voting Results of the 44th General Election

Introduction

The 44th General Election took place on September 21, 2021. This dashboard visualizes the official voting results of this event by province and territory

This data also is publically available at the Elections Canada website.

The text contained within the dashboard are extracts from the Report on the 44th General Election of September 20, 2021 The Elections Canada Act mandates that the Chief Electoral Officer of Elections Canada produce a report summarizing proceedings after each federal election.

Instructions

The dashboard below summarizes the results of the 44th General Eleciton by province and territory. You can use the drop down menu at the top of the dashboard to select a province. You can also select 'Canada' in the drop down menu to view data for the whole country. The contents of the dashboard will then change based on your selection.

44th General Election Results Dashboard

You currently are viewing data for . In the 44th general election had a turnout of compared to the national turnout of 62.6%.

Polling locations

In preparing for the general election, it was expected that finding locations for polling places would present major challenges. Many traditional polling places, such as community centres, churches and schools, would likely be unavailable owing to concerns about the potential spread of COVID-19 or because these locations were being used as vaccination or testing centres. Other locations, although available, would not have the space or infrastructure needed to meet physical distancing or other public health requirements.

As polling places would likely be fewer and farther apart, electors could face increased travel distances, accessibility issues and longer lineups. To mitigate these risks, returning officers considered all possible alternatives, including places not usually used for voting, and communicated with property owners and managers at regular intervals throughout 2020 and 2021 to confirm availability.

Compared with the 43rd general election, there were 3 percent fewer advance polling places and 7 percent fewer election day polling places. Overall, this reduction proved to be manageable; however, in some instances, the large number of polling stations resulted in bottlenecks and lineups.

Polling locations in

Voter turnout

In view of the pandemic, Elections Canada had prepared for a major change in the patterns of elector behaviour during the 44th general election. Electors not comfortable with voting in person at their polling place could instead vote by mail using a special ballot. While initial data collected in 2020 showed that as many as 5 million Canadians might do so the agency revised its estimate for the uptake of this voting method several times throughout the planning period as the pandemic situation changed.

While the actual number of electors who chose to vote by special ballot turned out to be much lower than initially planned for, more Canadians than ever before voted by special ballot from within their electoral district, either by mail or at a local office.

Voter turnout in relative to other provinces in 2021

Breakdown of valid votes in by voting methods

Summary of historical voter turnout data in , 2011 - 2021.

Glossary

Glossary of terms used in this dashboard
Term Definition
Stationary polling Stationary polling is the most common type of voting method. It describes all voting that happens on election day at an elector's assigned polling location
Mobile polling Mobile polling describes special cases where the poll location is mobile but electors are still counted as having voted on election. This is a common accessibility measure to serve electors in long-term care and retirement facilities.
Advanced polling Advanced polling describes voting which takes place on during the advanced polling period i.e. the 10th, 9th, 8th, and 7th days before polling day. Like stationary polls, electors vote at an assigned voting location.
Special voting rules (SVR) Special Voting Rules, or SVR, includes all other types of ballots cast. Some Elections Canada reports will separate this category into two groups. SVR Group 1 includes Canadian citizens residing outside Canada, members of the Canadian Armed Forces who voted at military polls, incarcerated electors and Canadian citizens residing in Canada who voted by special ballot outside their electoral districts. SVR Group 2 includes Canadian citizens residing in Canada who voted by special ballot inside their electoral districts. This report goups both types of SVR together.
Valid votes Valid votes are ballots which were cast for a candidate and were not rejected.
Ballots cast Ballots casts includes all ballots which were counted, including valid votes and rejected ballots.
Elector count Elector count refers to the official number of electors registered to voted on election day.
Turnout The official turnout number is calculated by dividing the number of ballots cast by the number of registered electors.
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